Summer Solstice Greetings

The poetically named, Silphium albiflorum (White Rosinweed or White Compassplant) is one of several endemic species at Tandy Hills, and one that blooms in the summertime. I find it to be an apt symbol for the summer solstice.

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself."